Rococo Urns
ROCOCO STYLE
Rococo was an aesthetic movement in the fine and decorative arts in the 18th century that found its inspiration in nature and fostered an overall lightness and delicacy of form, construction and ornament in interior design. Rococo furniture, while greatly influenced by trends in Italy and Germany, is often called Louis XV style — the movement having reached its best expression during that sybaritic French king’s reign.
The term “rococo” is thought to be a portmanteau of the French words rocaille and coquilles — “rock” and “shells” — organic motifs frequently used in architecture and design of the style.
When it comes to authentic Rococo furniture's characteristics, it is above all sensuous and social. The furniture of earlier eras in Europe had been heavy in every sense; the Rococo period saw the appearance of light-framed upholstered armchairs, side chairs and occasional tables that could easily be moved to form conversational circles.
The signal detail of Rococo furniture design is the gently curved cabriole, or S-shaped chair-, table-, and cabinet-leg. It imitates the bend of a tree limb or a flower stem. In a further reference to nature, furnishings were often asymmetrical and painted white, or in soft, pastel shades. Rococo has become a timeless style, and as the furniture pieces presented on 1stDibs demonstrate, its playful, sculptural forms can provide visual excitement to contemporary, clean-lined spaces.
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Style: Rococo
Porcelain Potpourri Urn in the Rocco Style, ca. 19th century
By Sitzendorf
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful German hand painted porcelain potpourri urn vase with flowers and putti, in the Rocco style, by Sitzendorf, circa 19th century or earlier, Germany. Piece has details flor...
Category
19th Century German Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Large Lidded Faience Urn with Flowers and a Bird by Rorstrand, Sweden, 1910s.
Located in Malmö, SE
A beautiful lidded rococo potpurri urn with amazing polychrome decoration in relief, branches, roses and a crowning bird.
Made by Rorstrand, Sweden, 1910s, after an 18th-century mode...
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Early 20th Century Swedish Rococo Urns
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware, Faience
Antique Carl Thieme Potschappel German Porcelain Dresden Style Covered Urn
By Carl Thieme
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine Dresden style covered urn.
By Carl Thieme / Potschappel porcelain factory.
Of Campagna urn form with scrolling twin handles and a pierced lid or cover with stylized artichoke finial.
Decorated throughout with typical Deutsche Blumen floral sprays, bands of green flower head and s-scroll devices, and rich gilding throughout.
Fully marked to the base.
Simply a wonderful antique porcelain urn!
Date:
Late 19th or Early 20th Century
Overall Condition:
It is in overall good, as-pictured, used estate condition.
Condition Details:
The base has apparently been re-secured at one point with overpaint to the bolt. (One can twist the base to rest firmly in place, but it can rotate the other direction to loosen some.) Otherwise, there are some fine & light surface scratches and other signs of expected light wear consistent with age.
Maker:
Carl Thieme / Potschappel
Pattern Name:
Dresden Potpourri...
Category
20th Century German Rococo Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Petite Sevres Porcelain and Bronze Ormolu Mounted Urn Vase
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a very old gilt and pale pink background urn depicting a continuous hand-painted scene of a lady sitting in a pastoral landscape holding her fan and observing nature. In the ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Porcelain
French Sèvres Porcelain Urns, Pair
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful and rare pair of French Sèvres porcelain bronze-mounted urns, Neoclassical/Rococo design period, circa 19th century, mid-1800s, Fra...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Bronze
Incredible 19th Century Meissen Porcelain Covered Urn Emblematic of Autumn
Located in New York, NY
An incredible and truly monumental 19th century Meissen Porcelain Covered urn emblematic of autumn. This is one of the most incredible and sp...
Category
1880s German Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Rococo style Urns
Located in Dallas, TX
This listing features a pair of Rococo style Urns that are very lightweight and would add a touch of romance and whimsy to any room. Rococo was a style that was invented by 18th cent...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Rococo Urns
Materials
Ceramic
19th Century French Ormolu Mounted Pink Sevres Style Lidded Vase
Located in Lisbon, PT
A beautiful antique decorative pink porcelain Sèvres Style urn with a hand-painted background of a lovers scene.
In the back there is a scene of a bouquet of flowers. Mounted Bacchus/ Dionysus bronze...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Bronze
Gilded and Paint Decorated Venetian Style Floor Standing Plantstand Planter
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
For customers that require professional insured delivery we are proud to have teamed up with a nationwide professional delivery company that will assist with coordinating your delive...
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1990s Italian Rococo Urns
Materials
Hardwood
Pair of Herend Hungarian Blue Decorated and Lidded Porcelain Urns
By Herend
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Hungarian (20th Century porcelain urns with bright blue backgrounds and painted central pastoral scenes with gilt and pink details and lids with decorative cutouts...
Category
20th Century Rococo Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Large Celestial Blue King Louis Sevres Style Scenery Lidded Urns
Located in New Milford, CT
"This exquisite pair of large lidded urns in the iconic Sevres style, featuring a stunning celestial blue glaze adorned with intricate gilt detailing that exudes opulence and refinem...
Category
Early 2000s Unknown Rococo Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of French Gilt Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Vases
Located in London, GB
These beautiful porcelain vases feature elegant Rococo-style decorations in the manner of the Sèvres manufactures.
The vases feature slightly flared cylindrical porcelain bodies ...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Ormolu
Sèvres Palace Porcelain Urns
Located in New Orleans, LA
These bronze-mounted Sèvres porcelain urns are monumental in both size and quality and feature the renowned manufactory’s signature deep cobalt blue glaz...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Ormolu-Mounted Rococo Style Antique Marble Urn
Located in London, GB
This exuberantly designed lidded urn is carved in veined green marble. The body of the urn is of canted ovoid shape and mounted with twin acanthus leaf ormolu handles. The body of th...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
“Royal Vienna” Covered Urn Signed A. Heer with Exquisite Paintings on Both Sides
Located in Boston, MA
I want to offer you this amazing “Royal Vienna” style urn with a green background with exquisite paintings on both sides. The paintings are entitled "Die drei Gratien" or the three g...
Category
1890s Austrian Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Painted and Parcel Gilt Porcelain Vase by Meissen
Located in London, GB
This beautiful vase was created by the world-famous Meissen porcelain factory. Meissen was established in the early 18th century, making it the first producer of hard-paste porcelain...
Category
19th Century German Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Italian Wooden Carved Sarcophagus-Shaped Chest with Reliquary
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An Italian Rococo sarcophagus-shaped wooden chest of bombé rectangular form with richly carved gilt decoration on a distressed ebonized ground. The hinged pagoda top lid is skillfull...
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Holy Oils Vase or Container, Pewter, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Santos Oils container. Pewter. Century XVIII.
Container made of pewter that has a foot, a body with curves, two handles and a lid. Its exterior decoration shows a clear influence o...
Category
18th Century European Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Pewter
Pair Gilt Rococo Urns French Gilt Tureens Louis Rocaille
Located in Potters Bar, GB
Pair French gilt rococo urns in the Louis XVI manner
Very opulent pair, just crying out to be the centrepiece to any interiors scheme
So intricately cast with the rocaille details
Ve...
Category
1980s Vintage Rococo Urns
Materials
Bronze
Large Italian Alabaster Vase on Stand
Located in London, GB
This large and impressive vase was carved in Italy in circa 1900 from a veined grey alabaster. The vase is shaped like stylised loutrophoros-amphora vessel with an ovoid body and elo...
Category
Early 1900s Italian Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Alabaster
Pair of 19th Century Paris Mantelpieces
By Old Paris
Located in London, GB
A pair of Napoleon III mantelpiece vases in the eighteenth century style, elaborately decorated and gilded on a :bleu de ciel: background. Each vase ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Porcelain
English 19th Century Gilt Bronze Collection of Decorative Urns
Located in London, GB
A gilt bronze garniture de fireplace by Elkington and Company
Conceived in the Rococo manner, the gilt bronze being excellently cast and planished, the suite consisting of a central two handled baluster form vase, two similar and smaller, and a pair of ewers, marked to the underside with the makers mark,
circa 1850
Elkington and Company, formed by the brothers George and Henry, was founded in the 1830s, after perfecting their newly patented method of electro plating in gold and silver, for which their first patent was granted in 1840.
They exhibited at the European and British 19th century Great Exhibitions, and were given permission by Queen Victoria in 1868 to copy the collection of Royal Plate...
Category
19th Century English Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Bronze
French Porcelain Potpourri Pots
By Jacob Petit
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pairs of adorable children adorn these charming potpourri pots attributed to famed French porcelain maker Jacob Petit, one of the finest porcelain artis...
Category
19th Century French Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
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Large French Sevres Style Bronze Mounted Hand Painted Porcelain Lidded Urn
By Melo
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a large and heavy French Sevres style patinated bronze mounted porcelain lidded urn. It is hand painted in a white and sky blue background. It depicts a scene of an 18th cent...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Bronze
Exceptional and Unusual Pair of Porcelain Cerulean and Ormolu Urns
Located in New York, NY
Double sided porcelain urns with genre scenes and still life paintings on their reverse. The piece demonstrates the technical excellence of Sèvres porcelain, with delicate gold leaf in the form of foliage and garlands applied to the porcelain itself. The porcelain vases are beautifully decorated with gilt bronze (ormolu) mounts, containing expertly cast lion...
Category
19th Century Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Sevres Style Grand Gilt Bronze Hand Painted Cobalt Blue Porcelain Urn
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a huge bronze hand painted porcelain urn featuring a painting of The Birth And The Triumph of Venus after the painter Francois Boucher-1740. The oval painting is framed by gilt hand painted scrolls of acanthus leaves & branches of roses. The back of the urn has a golden crown with the monogram-LP-below it, that is surrounded by a frieze made of acanthus leaves and branches of roses (This represent the Royal Coat of Arms of the King Louis Philippe I...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Gilt Bronze Mounted Sèvres Porcelain Garniture
Located in London, GB
With its exquisite paintings of putti playing sports in Arcadian landscapes, this ‘bleu celeste’ garniture demonstrates the exceptional beauty and high-quality craftsmanship of Sevre...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Urns
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Magnificent Louis XV Style Patinated and Gilt Bronze Urn
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A magnificent large French XV rococo style patinated and gilt bronze urn. The fluted body of the urn, (almost ewer shaped) is of patinated bronze, the flutes inset at the top and bot...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Rococo Urns
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Bronze
Urns Pair Flowers French 18th Century Faiance France
Located in New York, NY
Urns Pair Flowers French 18th Century Faiance France. A pair of urns made during the 18th Century in France. Decorated with flowers painted in Blue, Or...
Category
Early 18th Century French Antique Rococo Urns
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Rococo urns for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Rococo urns for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the Late 20th Century, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage urns created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, more furniture and collectibles, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with ceramic, porcelain and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Rococo urns made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and Italy pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original urns, popular names associated with this style include Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Meissen Porcelain, Elkington & Co., and Herend. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for urns differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,040 and tops out at $285,000 while the average work can sell for $7,000.